Word: songs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some of their 'tainted goods.' How absurd that is! If we had such flexible spines, they would have bent in 1948 under the powerful pressure of the great propaganda machine turned on them by several countries." In an access of enthusiasm, the congress delegates broke into a song that rates high on the Belgrade Hit Parade. "The more lies, the more slanders," they sang, "the dearer Tito...
...jointed and episodic, the opera introduces Schweik (Tenor Norman Kelley) as he is being arrested for "high treason," traces his progress through a scurvy prison and a madhouse, follows him into the army as an orderly. At the end he wanders away from the trenches singing a plaintive little song ("I'll take a quiet road, and I'll lie in the sun/For birds and butterflies, I won't need my gun"), and a bowler-hatted dandy comes onstage to sing his epitaph as "the kind of fellow that fellow men like...
This macabre little song chilled many bones in Edinburgh when the "resurrectionists," i.e., men who stole fresh bodies for surgical research, flourished a century or so ago. A true resurrectionist, who dealt in live bodies while practicing a trade in mercy on the bloody landscape of the Europe of the 19403, is a man named Joel Brand. He told his story to a German journalist, Alex Weissberg, who put it down baldly and brutally. Fine writing would be an offense against the appalling facts of this bitter memoir...
...Rice Paddy Rag. In Peking, Radio Peking, propaganda voice of Communist China, played a song called Mother, I Want to Go to the Countryside to Train Myself with Physical Labor...
Significantly, Eliot House is planning only a folk song concert on Friday night and a Spring Formal the next evening. Eliot has also indicated that parietal hours will be extended. A member of the House staff called this Eliot House decision "Britannia Waives the Rules...